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In Today’s Competitive Market, AI is the Key to Winning Customer Loyalty

C3Centricity

If you haven’t already heard, AI is the key to winning customer loyalty today! As the digital revolution transforms the business landscape, customers demand more from their interactions with companies. They expect personalised, seamless experiences across all channels and touchpoints, and they want their needs to be anticipated so they are met both quickly and efficiently.

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Alida Activate 2023 Inspired Next Generation of CX Strategists

Alida

Speakers at Activate 2023 celebrated the power of community's main comparative advantages, like versatility, malleability, and ability to enable the execution of targeted CX tactics.

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Welcome to ChatGPT, May I Take Your Order?

IntouchInsight

Businesses have been benefitting from the efficiencies provided by machines since the 1700s. As technology continues to advance, new tools and applications arise. For restaurant operators facing persistent labor shortages and increasing wages, the more work that can be completed by machines the better.

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Can Visual Appeal Boost the Customer Experience?

Steve DiGioia

We shop at any business for the products or services they offer. Hopefully, their service and price are in line with our expectations too. But does the look of the business matter and can the visual appeal boost the customer experience? Here’s what I mean… The Power of Visual Appeal Many years ago, some themed restaurants like Fridays, for example, thought it was cool to hang all kinds of assorted “junk” on their walls.

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The State of Customer Experience 2023 Report: Part 2

JUST RELEASED! The Northridge Group’s State of CX 2023 Part II research report reveals that nearly half of consumers surveyed had knowingly spoken to a customer service associate working from home—and almost 75% of those respondents felt the associate's location did not impact the service or experience. So why do more than ⅓ of business leaders want contact center associates back in the office?

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5 Marketing Strategies to Increase Enrollment (without blowing the budget)

Comm100

The competition for higher education students has potentially never been harder than it is today. Since 2017, postsecondary enrollment in the US has fallen by 9%. Worse yet, it doesn’t look like this trend is set to change any time soon. To tackle this competitive landscape, colleges and universities can’t rely on their current strategies to attract students.

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Medical Device Support: Next Level Patient Assistance

TechSee

Cochlear is the world leader in implantable hearing solutions. With over 700,000 devices implanted worldwide, the company’s customer service team assists people daily with a wide range of questions about their devices, including multiple types of implants, Sound Processors, and a portfolio of accessories. These devices are used by people of all ages, they serve kids, grandparents and connect them to the world around them through the miracle of hearing.

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The Three Principles to Build Customer Loyalty

Bill Quiseng

Every week, in the month of June, I will offer each one of the Three Principles to Build Customer Loyalty. Why only three? Because nobody can remember Number Four. Who is the first President of the United States? Surely, George Washington. Who is Number Four? Who is the first person to walk on the moon? Neil Armstrong, of course. Who is Number Four?

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Can ChatGPT Be Used for Customer Service?

CSM Magazine

Mike Myer, CEO of Quiq, explores the impact of ChatGPT on the world of customer service. Everyone is chatting about ChatGPT these days because it’s one of tech’s most intriguing new developments. Within five days of its November 2022 introduction, over a million people were using it. However, the fear, uncertainty and doubt about ChatGPT is rampant.

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Host ML models on Amazon SageMaker using Triton: CV model with PyTorch backend

AWS Machine Learning

PyTorch is a machine learning (ML) framework based on the Torch library, used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing. One of the primary reasons that customers are choosing a PyTorch framework is its simplicity and the fact that it’s designed and assembled to work with Python. PyTorch supports dynamic computational graphs, enabling network behavior to be changed at runtime.

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How Government Services Can Provide Better Citizen Satisfaction & Experience

Attention government agencies and BPO partners! CXperts is your go-to solution for improving citizen experience. Our omnichannel and digital contact center solutions are designed to supply superior CX, reducing costs and maximizing efficiency. Plus, we are a Minority Owned Business (MBE). With our certifications, we are the perfect partner to help government agencies meet their CX goals and fulfill federal deal requirements.

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This is how to impress your boss and a Business case for change accepted

Beyond Philosophy

Getting your new program initiatives accepted requires overcoming a lot. So, to help you get that done—and impress your boss doing it—you need to have a winning strategy. The corporate budget is a funny thing. Getting approval on a budget in the corporate world doesn’t mean you get to spend it. Quite the contrary. You often have to get the budget approved for what you might spend and then when you want to spend it, you get approval again.

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The Power of AI: How Retail Marketers Can Do More With Less Ahead of the Holidays

Blueshift

In the fast-paced world of retail and e-commerce , staying ahead of the competition requires innovation, strategic decision-making, and the right tools to get it done. As the busy holiday season slowly approaches, it’s crucial that marketers adopt strategies now to ensure efficiency and maximize customer outreach later. This is where AI comes in, especially as marketers are tasked with doing more with less.

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Did your customer champion leave? Use this five-step playbook to reduce churn risk

ChurnZero

A Customer Success Manager at a Series-B stage SaaS company had just learned a key contact—their customer champion—was moving on to a new role. The risk of churn was high since the new point of contact indicated they wanted to make some changes. “I just want you to know I’m probably going to replace you all with another tool,” the customer said.

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Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve Customer Behavior Modeling Technologies

Optimove

The holy grail of customer marketing is serving each customer the best possible offer in the optimal time, channel and place. This goal takes into account the vast differences between individuals. Each person has unique wants, needs and preferences, and the ideal marketer should be able to cater to each one on his or her own terms. This, of course, is highly impractical, and this is where Customer Modeling, also known as Customer Behavior Modeling, comes into the picture.

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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Scale your machine learning workloads on Amazon ECS powered by AWS Trainium instances

AWS Machine Learning

Running machine learning (ML) workloads with containers is becoming a common practice. Containers can fully encapsulate not just your training code, but the entire dependency stack down to the hardware libraries and drivers. What you get is an ML development environment that is consistent and portable. With containers, scaling on a cluster becomes much easier.

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During Cisco Live 2023 – Upstream Works Supports Cisco’s Commitment to Deliver Exceptional Customer Engagements

Upstream Works

Upstream Works is excited to introduce you to our newest product offering – Upstream Works for Amazon Connect. We enhance Amazon Connect with a unified desktop, digital channel flexibility, seamless integrations and management simplicity The post During Cisco Live 2023 – Upstream Works Supports Cisco’s Commitment to Deliver Exceptional Customer Engagements appeared first on Upstream Works.

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It’s all about context stupid! Why most businesses fail to take this into account

Beyond Philosophy

Organizations don’t think enough about the context in which a customer enters the experience. Most believe that every customer is the same. However, understanding the context in which your customer has your experience is critical to your customer strategy. Context is everywhere. When I started working in Customer Experience in 2001, people hadn’t thought about the experience economy, the customer experience, or anything else in this area.

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Why employee experience is the missing link in Europe’s CX plans

eglobalis

Why employee experience is the missing link in Europe's CX plans The post Why employee experience is the missing link in Europe’s CX plans appeared first on Eglobalis.

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Improve Contact Center Outcomes with Key Insights

Contact center leaders are skilled at balancing competing day-to-day priorities. They help others make informed business decisions, all while working to keep agents and customers engaged in positive experiences. Rapid access to the most relevant and actionable information is critical to managing agents, supervisors, and communicating with executive leadership to improve efficiencies and business outcomes.

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Customer Engagement Initiative Projects for SAP CRM and Customer Experience are open for registration until June 16, 2023

SAP Customer Experience

Take advantage by participating in one of the SAP CRM and Customer Experience projects of the second Customer Engagement Initiative cycle in 2023 and register until June 16, 2023: Composable Storefront for SAP Commerce Cloud – SDK and BFF for frontend solutions Delivery Mode & Costs for SAP Commerce Cloud.

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Configure and use defaults for Amazon SageMaker resources with the SageMaker Python SDK

AWS Machine Learning

The Amazon SageMaker Python SDK is an open-source library for training and deploying machine learning (ML) models on Amazon SageMaker. Enterprise customers in tightly controlled industries such as healthcare and finance set up security guardrails to ensure their data is encrypted and traffic doesn’t traverse the internet. To ensure the SageMaker training and deployment of ML models follow these guardrails, it’s a common practice to set restrictions at the account or AWS Organizations level throu

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A Survey of B2C Marketing Executives Reveals They Allocate Most of Their 2023 Budget to Costly Acquisition Versus Retention

Optimove

Our May 2023 survey of marketers shows that for the second year in a row, respondents continue to allocate more of their budget for acquisition marketing versus retention marketing, despite consumer spending uncertainty, and that new customer acquisition can cost  five times  more than retaining an existing one. Respondents were marketing leaders:   Respondents included 221 executives at companies with the following B2C models: digital-first multi-brand, wholesale manufacturers, traditional mult

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Explore the 11 best customer feedback tools of 2023

BirdEye

Microsoft’s State of Global Customer Service Report showed that 77% of customers view brands more favorably if they seek out and apply customer feedback. If your business isn’t actively gathering feedback, it may be time to rethink your stance. In this blog post, we’ll explore the best customer feedback tools you can use to quickly gather, manage, analyze, and action customer feedback.

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The Hidden Costs of Poor Customer Onboarding

Churn starts within the first 30 days of customers purchasing a product. A lot of it comes down to the first impression customers get through the onboarding process. A poor experience can result in losing current and future customers, and unnecessary overhead. It’s important to know what a poor onboarding experience looks like, the associated hidden costs, and how to build a top-tier onboarding experience for your customers so you can avoid losing hard-earned revenue.

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Data silos: The silent killer of great customer experience

Adrian Swinscoe

This is guest post from Joyce Kim, Chief Marketing Officer at Twilio. It was in 2006 that the British mathematician Clive Humby uttered the now legendary […] The post Data silos: The silent killer of great customer experience first appeared on Adrian Swinscoe.

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You Need To Have Your Own Back First

One Millimeter Mindset

Have your own back first, instead of solely relying on others to have your back. It’s that simple. When you have your own back, you first and foremost have a clear concept of your own goals and opportunities. Then, as others present options to you, you are better able to assess and evaluate what works for you and what doesn’t. Otherwise, you are easily influenced by other people’s agendas.

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Translate documents in real time with Amazon Translate

AWS Machine Learning

A critical component of business success is the ability to connect with customers. Businesses today want to connect with their customers by offering their content across multiple languages in real time. For most customers, the content creation process is disconnected from the localization effort of translating content into multiple target languages.

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[Experience Action Podcast] The Case of Missing CX [wp-svg-icons icon="new-tab" wrap="i"]

Experience Investigators by 360Connext

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The Ultimate CX Solution: Combining Software + Service

In today's competitive business landscape, customer experience (CX) has emerged as a critical differentiator. Companies are increasingly investing in CX services to optimize customer satisfaction, drive customer loyalty, and ultimately, enhance their bottom line. Traditionally, businesses have had to choose between a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) approach or a full-service model, where an agency handles the entire CX program.

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6 easy steps for creating a winning benchmarking strategy

BirdEye

Benchmarking drives greatness. Consider the four-minute mile. Experts thought it impossible that anyone could run a mile so fast, that is until Roger Bannister did so in 1954. Since then, roughly 1500 people have achieved “the impossible,” and it’s pretty much the benchmark for becoming a world-class runner. In the same way, a benchmarking strategy can propel your company to achieve your loftiest goals.

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How CX can impact the buying journey

MyCustomer

Martyn Lewis explores the unique role CX teams can play in positively influencing and managing the buying journey.

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Chatbot Testing: A Beginner's Guide

Cyara

Chatbots have seen significant growth in recent years as more businesses look to utilize automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the quality and availability of their service. They offer increased engagement opportunities for your customers and prospects and are available on a 24/7 basis. Chatbots also provide multilingual support with significantly reduced operational costs and lower labor resource requirements.